I am Chris Ross.

I am the Principal Consultant and Corporate Practice lead with Cireson, and live in Denver, CO. I’ve been in the IT field for over 18 years now, and love what I do. This site is dedicated to my passion, Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager, and spreading the greatness of the product through community interaction. Read more…

Specialties.

Consulting

I’ve been consulting for a long time… like almost nine years – yikes!

Process

I’m all about ITIL and MOF, just ask my dog!

Management

Managing Consultant at Catapult Systems, and in my past life, Vice President of IT for a very large company

Skills.

SCSM

157%

SCORCH

96%

PowerShell

84%

Awesomeness

91%

Ego

24%

I am Lee Berg.

I am a Microsoft MVP and a Consulting Systems Engineer with Concurrency and live in Madison, Wi. I’m committed to the System Center community and you will find me presenting, contributing, blogging, and more!

Specialties.

Automation

I’m all about Automation and Process improvement

Integraiton

I can use the power of System Center and some SQL to manage just about anything in Service Manager!

Skills.

SCSM

90%

SCORCH

95%

PowerShell

90%

Internet Memes

91%

I am Vanessa Veronica Mirabal.

This site is dedicated to my passion, Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager, and spreading the greatness of the product through community interaction. Read more…

Specialties.

Coming Soon!

Skills.

Coming Soon!

Who are you?

Please, tell me.

Random cat.

The Service Manager User Group is back for 2015, and we have a twist!
We are making some exciting announcements to the user group for this year (think big picture) and we invite you to join us for the upcoming meeting Jan. 29th to find out all about it.
Register for the GoToWebinar here! and Add to Your Outlook Calendar: Click Here!
You are not going to want to miss this!
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Stay tuned for some NEW SCSM.US group news, but in the mean-time, I wanted to follow up on our last post from 2014:
I just wanted to inform everyone that the Service Manager Lyncup Call is still going on and has a NEW meeting ID. This is now being hosted by Kathleen Wilson and the SCSM Product Group and the SCSM “Smart Buddies” (internal and external).
You can get the ...

It has been announced that 2014 will be the year of the Microsoft #LyncUp!
Today the Microsoft "System Center Team Blog" has posted that Christian Booth has revived the Service Manager Customer LyncUp!
For those of you who are not familiar with the Service Manager LyncUp, Christian describes it as:
a monthly “Lync” call intended for community members communicate and network in an open forum. The design was to eliminate predetermined ...

Another great issue of This Week in Service Manager [TWIS] has been released on December 29, 2013.
This week, Lee Berg covers the Service Manager blog posts that happened over the Holiday break that you don't want to miss! Check it out:
Cireson Blog - ITIL is really just a big dose of COMMON SENSE
http://www.cireson.com/business/itil-is-really-just-a-big-dose-of-common-sense/
Buchatech.com - Launch a Runbook from a Service ...

Reading the morning tweets, I just ran across another gem posted by Don Jones @concentrateddon. SAPIEN’s Full PowerShell Video Catalog is Now on You Tube for anyone to see.
For those of you not heavy into PowerShell *yet*, this is great stuff, and something that you & your entire team need to start digging into as PowerShell is about the most relevant topic these days with the ...